Wednesday, July 4, 2012

We went out to one of our favorite eateries last weekend, The 1029 Bar. I ate a Shrimp Po' Boy and Yanni had a Lamb Sandwich...yum. Afterwords we went for a walk around St Anthony Main-it was a beautiful night!

Cookie had a near death experience last week after she ate 7oz of unsweetened baking chocolate while I was away running some errands. After one emergency visit to the vet and some drugs, she has made a full recovery. Thank goodness.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

I graduated on Saturday! We took a quick trip down to Chicago to attend the commencement and celebrate. This was our first trip back to the windy city since we moved and it was exciting to be back. After the ceremony we went to Sun-Wah BBQ and enjoyed a duck dinner-yum!

Monday, May 7, 2012

I finally got around to checking something off my bucket list: making strawberry jam ( and since the rhubarb is tasting amazing I decided to use that too). I've wanted to try canning since last summer..and especially after I started following this blog. I enjoyed the process and shout out to Mom for the help!

<3 love these little jars <3

The sous chef

Boiled the pectin, lemon juice, strawberries, rhubarb and {LOTS} of sugar. Then ladled the jam into the jars.

Cans processed for 11 minutes

ta-dah

Tried the new jam on a piece of buttered bread...yum!

Now onto canning tomato sauce, apple sauce, apple butter and maybe a few other recipes :)